Efficacy: There are many medicinal varieties of chrysanthemum, including Chuju, Boju, Jiju, Huaiju, Hangju, Gongju, Qiju and Huang Ju.

Chrysanthemum can dispel wind and clear heat, calm the liver and improve eyesight. Can be used for treating wind-heat common cold, headache, dizziness, red eyes, swelling and pain, and blurred vision. Modern medical research has confirmed that chrysanthemum has the functions of lowering blood pressure, dilating coronary artery and inhibiting bacteria.

Note: Chrysanthemum is cold. People with cold constitution or yang deficiency constitution should drink as little as possible, or add traditional Chinese medicine with hot ingredients to balance the medicinal properties and enhance the curative effect. For example, adding medlar to chrysanthemum tea can balance the coldness of chrysanthemum.

Cold constitution: generally manifested as fear of cold and wind, often cold hands and feet, dislike drinking water, seldom feel thirsty, often feel weak when speaking or acting, pale face, mental weakness, frequent diarrhea, frequent urination and light color, often feel tired, and pale tongue color.

2. honeysuckle

Efficacy: Honeysuckle can clear away heat and detoxify, cool wind and heat. Used for carbuncle, furuncle, erysipelas, dysentery, wind-heat cold, fever and fever. Modern medical research has confirmed that honeysuckle has the functions of sterilization, anti-inflammation and blood lipid reduction.

Note: honeysuckle is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which is cold and should not be drunk for a long time. Only suitable for patients with cold, fever and sore throat, or in summer to prevent dysentery. In particular, it is necessary to remind you that you can't drink deficiency-cold constitution and menstrual period. Otherwise, there will be adverse reactions.

3. lilac flowers

Efficacy: Clove is an ancient Chinese medicine. The flowers, leaves and fruits of clove can be used as medicine. What is the name of an unopened bud? Lilacs? Ripe fruit is called. Female lilacs? .

Clove warms the middle and lowers the adverse, and tonifies the kidney and helps the yang. It can be used for treating deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, hiccup, emesis, anorexia, emesis and diarrhea, chills and pains, and impotence due to kidney deficiency. Modern medicine has proved that clove has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, enhancing humoral immune function and protecting the liver.

Precautions: Fold the cloves in half before brewing. When the weight is too much, the smell will be very strong. Lilac tea is slightly sweet, with a little medicinal flavor in its slightly spicy aroma. If you are not used to it, you can mix herbs with sweet flowers.

Deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach: generally manifested as stomachache or dull pain, warm tenderness, acute pain on an empty stomach, pain relief after eating, watery vomiting, loss of appetite, mental fatigue, cold hands and feet, thin stool, pale tongue with white fur and weak or slow pulse.

4. Sophora japonica

Efficacy: Sophora japonica has the functions of clearing heat and cooling blood, clearing liver and purging fire, and stopping bleeding. Mainly used for intestinal wind, bloody stool, hematuria, bloody stranguria, red and white dysentery, wind-heat conjunctival congestion, hypertension, carbuncle and toxin, and preventing apoplexy.

Precautions: People with cold Sophora japonica, deficiency of yang and deficiency of spleen and stomach should eat carefully.

5. Gardenia

Efficacy: Gardenia mature fruit is used as medicine. Gardenia fruit can be used to make tea. Gardenia is an ideal tea for heatstroke prevention and cooling in summer. Can be used for treating fever, anxiety, jaundice, hematuria, epistaxis, hematemesis, hematuria, hot sore, sprain and contusion, and swelling and pain due to blood stasis.

Note: generally used in summer.

Tips for drinking and shopping:

Take a proper amount of flowers and plants (generally 1 teaspoon) and put them into the teapot or teapot filter, and then inject 400 ~ 500ml of hot water. Scented tea with flowers and leaves can be drunk in about 1 minute. The scented tea of fruits or seeds can be drunk after 2 minutes. If you use a glass teapot, you can observe the color change of water at any time and master the brewing concentration.

Scented tea can be flowers, dried flowers and plants. If you use fresh flowers and plants, you should crush them first to make the taste easy to leach. If it is mixed with dried flowers, it can be soaked in dried products first, then soaked in fresh products, or added with soup obtained by soaking in dried products.

When purchasing, you should choose non-pesticide pollution or wild varieties. Speaking of efficacy, drying flowers and plants is better.

It is not advisable to drink a lot of scented tea for a long time.